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[quote=Anonymous][b]Are you just posing as a Muslim to generate opposition to Islam? Again, as said over and over again, the rules on inheritance are laid down in black and white in the Koran. This is a case where Sharia absolutely reflects the Koran. You have yet to deny this but avoid acknowledging it by repeatedly just responding that some things in Sharia aren't true Islam because they are not in the Koran.
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She won't acknowledge it is from the Koran because she realizes the inheritance rules really wouldn't be accepted in modern Western nations and truly are disadvantageous to women in today's society (although not in seventh century Arabia--they were revolutionary for their time).

Some of the most oppressive stuff in Islam is ni hadith and sharia:  Kudos to Sweetie for rejecting the things here that lead to perverse outcomes.  Shows some independence of thought.

However, it backs her into a strategy of saying only the Koran may be relied upon and every word there is true and just. This is because she is not yet able to take the next logical step of saying the Koran is not the eternal word of God.  If it is eternal it is good for all times and all places, so she'd have to defend inheritance laws that would make no sense in the US or the west more generally today.

The co-eternality of the Koran with God is not Koranic.  It came later in Islamic theology for which the nature of the Koran was a hot topic of debate for centuries (much like the trinity was in Christianity--remember that?)

There are many Muslims that have come to her viewpoint with regard to hadith and sharia--Qaddafi's Little Green Book set forth the Koran as the only authority on Islam--but very few have had the intellectual courage to question the doctrine of co-eternality.  But this is necessary for Islam to truly reform and become relevant to modern circumstances.

It would allow people to view parts of the Koran as speaking to the social circumstances of the day but not necessarily relevant to today and relegate things like the inequitable inheritance rules and the various stories in it of people like Jesus and Moses to the status of interesting remnants of a bygone age , much as Jews and Christians today view the most prescriptive parts of the Bible and look upon many of the stories therein as spiritual metaphors, not literal truth.

But Sweetie just isn't there yet.  She expends her energy on trying to demonstrate the scientific accuracy of the Koran's words on embryology instead of questioning the co-eternality of the Koran.

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